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Current Newswire: How to Make a Steve Jobs Cheese Head IBM Adopts Red Hat's Virtualization Technologies for Cloud Computing Fanboys: A Field Guide Marvell promises $100 tablet for students Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light" released The Tortoise and the Hare Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx: Ubuntu's Most Innovative Google and Linux are coming to your TV ROSE Blog Interviews: Margarita Manterola, Debian Developer Upgrading a production Debian Lenny desktop to Squeeze? I don't recommend it Systems Engineer Sr – Automation – Opsware SAS / HP SA Next Step Systems US-TX-Houston Post A Job | Post A Resume How Much is Microsoft's Patent Protection Worth? Oct 2, 2007, 02 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (3003 reads) (Other stories by Matt Asay) [ Thanks to Matt Asay for this link. ] "I was reading Dave Rosenberg's commentary on Novell's patent deal with Microsoft, and got to thinking about how much 'protection' there actually is in the relationship. Novell has been selling this protection hard to its SUSE prospects ('Linux is scary because Microsoft might sue. But we have a deal with Microsoft...;). Extortion? Sure. But for some it seems that integrity has a price. "For those who can't be bought, just how much protection are you missing? Not very much, it seems to me, and to a range of open-source legal experts I emailed to solicit their opinions..." Complete Story Related Stories: Intellectual Property Cold War Rages On(Aug 27, 2007) OSI Email Group Gets Catty Over Microsoft's Permissive License Request(Aug 20, 2007) The Oracle Anti Patent-Threat Conspiracy(Aug 15, 2007) The Badger Game(Jul 13, 2007) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   It's not worth much.    Charles Hixson Oct 2, 2007, 21:52:18     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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